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Staffing shortages and the lasting shifts to commuter patterns has pumped the brakes on the recovery of transit ridership. Even as gas prices reach record highs across the country, ridership hasn’t seen a large uptick. -
Each winning city will receive an individualized Readiness Workshop and host of tech tools to help further its efforts toward becoming a smart city.
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Two projects in Georgia and New York are exploring new technologies which embed power generation, computing and more into paving, opening up this right-of-way space to accommodate solar panels and smart city sensors.
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We travel many thousands of miles from our NYU lab toward both the North and South poles so we can see what’s happening on the glacier and in the ocean off Greenland and Antarctica.
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Several municipalities are forming public-private partnerships to launch smart city initiatives.
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Even if an agreement is reached at this year’s Paris climate summit, national policy changes won’t kick in until 2020. But cities are ready to fill this gap.
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Beyond boosting energy efficiency, advanced lighting systems can use sensors and software to detect motion and transmit images and audio.
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Smart buildings are highly beneficial, and will become more so once all things that consume energy report their usage dynamically -- and can be remotely controlled.
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3-D modeling and DIY mapping tools are giving cities new ways to market their economic viability to prospective businesses.
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On this edition of FutureStructure Radio - our continuing conversation with Illinois CIO Hardik Bhatt and Munish Khetrapal of Cisco.
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Innovators will gather June 17-18 in San Francisco to collaborate and look at co-creation — where the city is a platform.
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The county also cut energy use between 30 percent and 60 percent in buildings targeted by energy initiatives, according to a new proposed climate action plan.
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Code for America highlights projects from its fellowship teams that are working to impact citizens in the areas of health, economic development, and safety and justice.
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Many emergency services are taking steps to implement cyber-physical systems technology on a broad scale.
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In 1994, Seattle won praise from urbanist thinkers nationwide with its 20-year plan for population and economic growth.
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Some members of the public understandably will be apprehensive about the safety of the vehicles, and the companies seeking public support should be willing to be transparent about accidents.
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Three cities are harnessing data to enhance their understanding of where pollutants emerge and monitor health impacts.
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Smart technologies are a force multiplier for public safety agencies, allowing them to serve growing populations even as public spending remains constrained.
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IoT innovations are doing everything from finding parking spaces to locating lost hikers.
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An international team of researchers examined data on how resources pass through the planet's largest cities, and their findings could point the way toward strategies to make cities cleaner, greener and more sustainable.
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The $42 million, three-year program will provide expertise and time to cities that want data-driven solutions for their biggest challenges.
